Situational Awareness and Damage Assessment Information System
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[edit] Summary
The aim is to develop a simple user interface for the Government of Haiti (GoH) to have a rapid and comprehensive understanding of the damages and losses caused by the earthquake.
There is a need to gather all the information that is available from a range of sources and organise it into one database. We have sophisticated aerial imagery that can assess damage levels on the ground. We also have people on the ground capable of mapping infrastructure by sector. This data needs to be synthesized to provide a rapid visual assessment of the situation on the ground.
The user interface (UI) will be a simple and comprehensive mechanism that will allow the GoH to search for data according to the relevant sector (see example below) and have an overview of the damages and losses relevant to that particular sector’s portfolio.
Inputting data should be open to the community to allow for a constant flow of up-to-date information.
The taxonomy developed will be based on the international community’s standards for Post Damage and Needs Assessments (PDNA), based on the UN ECLAC methodology.
The system developed will address needs beyond the immediate relief efforts, applicable to the reconstruction process moving forward. We would like to have it translated into various languages, starting with French and then with Haitian Creole. It will be a system that is in place that could be used for other disaster situations.
[edit] Project Coordinator in DC
Mark Forni msforni [at] hotmail.com 617-803-4791
[edit] Example
[edit] Ministry of Education:
Officials working in this sector will be able to access an executive summary in this database that provides information on:
- The percentage of loss in their sector: this will be categorized according level of damage of infrastructure (% of damaged infrastructure).
- This information can be sorted according to type of school (primary, secondary, tertiary), location (geographic), and damage level (scale of 1-5).
- Finally, this could be visualised on a Geographic Information System (GIS) to visualise the damage assessment.
To create this product, the tool requires the following information to be entered into the information system:
- Sectors: pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary
- Location (completed by actors in Haiti)
- Type of school (completed by actors in Haiti)
- Level of damage (completed with aerial imagery)
- Synthesis of data to understand level of damage to specific infrastructure (combination of stock data populated by actors in Haiti and aerial imagery)
Levels of damage will be color-coded (scale from 1-5)
The data captured would be from sources including people on the ground and aerial imagery (LIDAR). This will enable the officials to have an overview of the damage remotely and in a geographic system.
[edit] Key Accomplishments
Conceptualized a framework to channel the useful tools developed through Crisis Commons platform to make them applicable to official actors, including the Government of Haiti (GoH)
Identified the key needs for the GoH to ensure an accurate, comprehensive and rapid assessment of the damage:
- To gather existing data on the ground about the current capital stock of social infrastructure by sector (e.g. health sector, education sector, transport sector, etc) that identifies and classifies by type, for example, every school in the affected areas
- To gather existing aerial imagery, including photograph, LIDAR, RADAR, etc to assess damage
- To synthesize capital stock data gathered on the ground and via aerial imagery to assess damage caused by event
To achieve the established goals, the group divided into groups focusing on:
- Taxonomy
- Scraping the data
- Back end Data Storing
- User Interface
- Manual Inputs (Need help)
Taxonomy: developed an excel sheet that divides all the information necessary for a damage assessment: defines the various sectors, subsectors, sub asset class etc. to organise the data, based on international post damage and need assessment standards. Draft taxonomy structure is being worked out at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkjU4wxg8UU2dE9BQW1WRE10bklRbVZETHFERGJXQkE&hl=en
Scraping the data: researched existing data: Potential Data Sources include: Demobase Haiti US Census - Population Distribution (Raster) - https://www.geoint-online.net/community/haitiearthquake/default.aspx Open Street Map Open Street Map Digital Wiki Basemap - Roads, Road Obstructions, Damaged Buildings, Destroyed Buildings, Hydrography, Hosptials, IDP Camps - haiti.openstreetmap.nl GeoCommons - GeoCommons - Various GIS Files for Haiti - www.geocommons.com MINUSTAH - UN - GIS Base data for port-au-prince prior to EQ WFP - Food Distribution Points - Various Paper Maps + Possible spatial data by contacting WFP? Hospital Management System - Sahana - Hospital Locations (eventually hospital status information- http://trac.sahanapy.org/wiki/HaitiHospitals Situational Maps - ReliefWeb - Aggregated listed of maps from numerous sources - http://reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc404?OpenForm&rc=2&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI APAN - US Government Community Data Distribution Site - community.apan.org CrisisCommons List - List of Numerous Data Sources - http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake OneResponse - Website sourcing numerous situation reports/maps and other data source - http://oneresponse.info/disasters/haiti/Pages/default.aspx
Back end Data Storing: database (Haitiandata.org): based on the need for a rapidly deployable system it is recommended that a basic open source database management system is used.
User Interface: Some ideas include: A website, accessible to various audiences: - Ministry officials, to get reports from the database - data providers, to manually enter data in a form, to be integrated into the database - potentially others in future ---ideally website is via Haitian Creole (French and English are alternates, but all officials will understand Creole. Primary emphasis on French translation) Functionality: - Reports: Some pre-determined / preformatted reports, accessible by Ministry officials who may be less familiar with web-accessed reporting (simple interface) - Reports: some custom reporting capabilities, for people with more reporting experience and more specific needs - Manual data provision: not discussed in any detail yet - Example of a potential visualisation system of aggregated data is geocommons overlay system: http://news.geocommons.com/haitiquake
Manual Inputs: new data input - where is the data ? (Need help)
[edit] Next Steps:
- Identify significant actors in Haiti, organized by taxonomy sector (e.g., UN Agencies, NGOs, etc)
- Understand organizations producing captial stock data on the ground (e.g., identification of all schools in affected area by type of school)
- Identify universe of producers of aerial data
- Assess and summarize utility of all aerial imagery producers
- Identify GIS experts to synthesize capital stock and data and aerial loss imagery
- Create a database to populate
- Populate database
- Link info to Open Street Map
- Establish Excel summary pages by sector, with key stats, that links to dynamic database
- Mockup of UI/website for accessing/contributing data
This rapidly developing project is to develop an situational awareness and information system to help provide information to decision makers and needs assessments. Information will be posted as it happens.
This document includes links to documents used to prepare the project:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUjU4wxg8UU2ZGM3djYzY2pfMTNncHJ0ZmNmOA&hl=en
[edit] Project Summary
Project Twitter hashtag: #ccwpda
The aim is to develop a simple user interface for the Government of Haiti (GoH) to have a rapid and comprehensive understanding of the damages and losses caused by the earthquake. The group split into 5 groups:
- Taxonomy
- Scraping the data
- Back end Data Storing
- User Interface
- Manual Inputs (Need help)
- Please see more information on the wiki page: Situational Awareness and Damage Assessment Information System and the google doc: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUjU4wxg8UU2ZGM3djYzY2pfMTNncHJ0ZmNmOA&hl=en
Group:
- Project Lead: Marc Forni: msforni@hotmail.com
- Stu Gill: sgill@worldbank.org
- Emma Phillips: ephillips@worldbank.org
- Galen Evans: gevans@worldbank.org
- Andrea Dunathan: andrea@dunathanconsulting.com
- Irwan Ab Razak: Irwan_ab_razak@urscorp.com
- Kulkarni Saurabh: Kulkarni.saurabh@gmail.com
- Aelisa Carr: aelisaj@gmail.com
- Amy Mangieri: amy.mangieri@gmail.com
- Julie Morel: juliemorel83@gmail.com
- Sergei Zaiats: sergei.zaiats@gmail.com
- Chris Nicholas: chrisgnicholas@att.net
- Eric.Tyler@planusa.org
- Arashaz Houanesian: arshak.hovanesian@synisys.com
- Edward Anderson: edward.c.anderson@gmail.com
- Robbie Schingler: rschingler@gmail.com
- Nicole Wynands: nicolewynands@gmail.com
